Visible-light photocatalytic activity of nitrogen-doped NiTiO3 thin films prepared by a co-sputtering process

RSC Advances

Volumn 5, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 10551-10559

  Bellam, Jagadeesh Babu ^a   Ruiz Preciado, Marco Alejandro ^a,b   Edely, Mathieu ^a   Szade, Jacek ^c   Jouanneaux, Alain ^a   Kassiba, Abdel Hadi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS FILMS; ANNEALING; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL BONDS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ENERGY GAP; LIGHT; MAGNETRONS; NICKEL; NITROGEN; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; QUARTZ; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS; TITANIUM; TUNGSTEN; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PREFERENTIAL ORIENTATION; RADIO-FREQUENCY MAGNETRON CO-SPUTTERING; SUBSTRATE TEMPERATURE; VISIBLE LIGHT PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION; X-RAY DIFFRACTION MEASUREMENTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

EID: 84921668591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra12516a     Document Type: Article

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